I belong to this wonderful diabetes blog on facebook. Its a blog for parents of diabetics, but I belonged to a different group on facebook and was asked to join the parents group. I did thinking it was kind of silly, but boy am I ever glad I did join. It is suck an amazing group, I feel really lucky to belong to it.
Anyways, this morning there was a posting from one of the moms who had given her daughter a glass of milk and her daughters blood sugars went through the roof. Her sugars were normal, then they skyrocketed after the milk. She was so confused as to why! I thought, its MILK, that's why she's high. I wrote to her saying when my blood sugars go low that the BEST thing there is for me to bring my sugars up is milk. It shoots me up while still being an easy to drink to try and get down when the yuckyness of the low sets in. Its smooth, and really easy to gulp! I was surprised when so many parents said they had never thought of using milk to bring up a low because its...well...milk.
I mentioned that she could try a test to see how the milk effects her blood sugars. Give her a glass of milk when she hasn't ate or drank anything, then test her sugars every 3-4 minutes for a while after. See how it brings her sugars up. Some foods and drinks affect us different so milk might be one that really brings me up, but not so much other people.
Some of the other things I use to raise my sugars are apple juice, and if there is nothing else around I will drink orange juice. Glucose tabs don't do a thing to me! NOTHING. Straight sugar tabs, and they do nothing. We were shopping at a grocery store a few months back and I felt weak. My blood sugar was low 40's. I ate 4 glucose tabs, checked about 6-8 minutes later....and I was the exact same number. It hadn't budged an ounce.
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